Terry fabric



P. LEAKE.

TERRY FABRIC.

(Np Model.)

Patented Jan. 17, 1888.

N. PETERS, Photo-Lilhnghpher, Walhinglon. b. a

UNITED STATES PATENT EEicEO FRANK LEAKE, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

TERRY FABRICF SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 376,664, dated January 17, 1888.

Application filed May-5,1887. Serla1No.237,251. (Nomozleh) To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, FRANK LEAKE, ofPhi1adelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Terry Fabrics; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention is animproved fabric of that class in which a series of loops is arranged upon the surface, whether solidly or in differ-- entdesigns,commonlyknown as terry cloth.

Heretofore in the manufacture of terry cloth the second loose warp-thread constituting the terry loops has been held in place by a single weft-thread of the body of the fabric, it being thus secured in the operation of forming the cloth by throwing in three picks of weft and beating the third pick home to form the terry pile. These loops have thus been very loosely held, and it is possible to pull the terry thread out of its looped shape by drawing upon any one of the loops along the whole extent of the cloth. In the manufacture of a pile fabric from a terry,which is done by simply cutting the looped ends of the terry pile, it is neces sary to employ special mechanism to hold the loops while being so cut in order to prevent them from being drawn out from beneath the weft-threads which hold them in place, and for this reason, also, the terry cloth as at present made is very objectionable.

It is the object of my invention to produce what Iterm a fast terrythat is, to so secure the warp-thread which constitutes the terry pile that it will be more securely held than in the terry fabrics now known, and which will permit of the farbric being transformed from a terry to a pile fabric without the use of special mechanism for holding the loops during the cutting process.

My invention consists of a terry cloth or pile fabric consisting of the ordinary cloth proper, which comprises the filling and body warp threads and of the loose Warp-threads forming the terry pile,the said pile-threads being held to the body of the fabric between the terry loops by three weft-threads or a greater uneven number of said threads.

In the drawing the fabric is represented at A, and is shown as composed of the filling a and warp threads 0, which constitute the cloth proper on which the terry pile is made.

The terry pile is shown at b, and is woven into the fabric in precisely the same manner as the ordinary terry, except that instead, after throwingin three picks of thefilling, of tightening the reed or drawing it up into place, thus driving the three picks home at once, as usual, and continuing this operation, I follow the third pick up by another and another, thus bringing the top warp up at theends of the fifth pick, ready for commencing another terry loop, and in this manner the operation is repeated until the fabric is complete. It will thus be seen that instead of being held in place by a single weft-thread, as usual, between every two loops theterry warp will be bound securely to the main body of the fabric by c three weft-threads.

The warp and weft threads of the ground fabric are woven together in nearly the usual manner, the warp-threads changing their pow.

sition in the alternate movement of the heddles so as to bind the weft-threads in place. This alternate movement of the warp-threads is'interrupted, however, at thesecond pick of the series when the loose or terry warp .is carried below to the under surface of the fabric,

and at this point the body warp-threads are floated over two weft-threads before changing third picks, it tends to bind the weft-threads at this point, and thus the warp-threads may be floated over, as described. This, it will be seen, gives afirm body throughout for the terry loops, and not only are the threadsfirmly held between the loops by theweft-threads, but'the loops are supported and prevented from displacement by the body of the material beneath them. r

It will be'un'derstood that while I have IOC shown the warpthread bound by three picks in five, I may increase this number to a larger uneven nnmber sneh as five in seven or seven in ninewithont departing from the spirit of my invention. a

I claim as my invention- 1. A terry fabric consisting of the warp and weft threads forming the ground of the fabric and the loose Warp or terry thread bound between its loops by three or more of the weftthre'ads, the said warp and weft threads being bound together beneath the terry loops, substantially as described.

2. A fabric consisting of filling and warp 

